Award-winning Australian author and journalist Stephanie Dale will help authors find their inner voice as writers

Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan will define “writer’s platform” and guide audience in an exercise to identify their fans, brands, and write their platform-statements (for authors of fiction and nonfiction, before and after publication ).

Author and columnist Yolande Barial will demonstrate the importance of finding your passion

Author and educator Joan Gelfand will deconstruct the process of getting published

Poet and composer Judith Cody will discuss how to write for and publish an anthology

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Playwright and Arts In the Valley radio host Kim McMillon with Pat Lichter, Rockridge Branch Manager, Oakland Public Library

A room full of courageous writers at "Writers on Writing" (produced by Kim McMillon) at Oakland Library, Rockridge Branch, on 14 July 2012--photo by Writing Coach Teresa LeYung-Ryan